Estonia, sentence 143
From Wikipedia, «Estonia», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.
Soviet extermination battalions adopted a scorched-earth policy, massacring civilians in the process, and NKVD units executed political prisoners who could not be evacuated.
Who acts: Soviet extermination battalions, NKVD units · What happens: adopt, scorch, execute, not evacuate · To what, where: scorched earth policy, political prisoners
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Estonia». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Soviet extermination battalions, NKVD units), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Soviet | soviet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 battalions | amod |
| 2 | extermination | extermination | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 battalions | compound |
| 3 | battalions | battalion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 adopted | nsubj |
| 4 | adopted | adopt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 policy | det |
| 6 | scorched | scorch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 policy | amod |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 scorched | punct |
| 8 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 policy | compound |
| 9 | policy | policy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 adopted | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 civilians | punct |
| 11 | massacring | massacring | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 civilians | amod |
| 12 | civilians | civilian | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 policy | conj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 process | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 process | det |
| 15 | process | process | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 civilians | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 executed | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 executed | cc |
| 18 | NKVD | NKVD | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 units | compound |
| 19 | units | unit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 executed | nsubj |
| 20 | executed | execute | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 adopted | conj |
| 21 | political | political | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 prisoners | amod |
| 22 | prisoners | prisoner | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 executed | obj |
| 23 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 evacuated | nsubj:pass |
| 24 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 evacuated | aux |
| 25 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 27 evacuated | advmod |
| 26 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 27 evacuated | aux:pass |
| 27 | evacuated | evacuate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 prisoners | acl:relcl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 adopted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | adopt | past | Soviet extermination battalions | a scorched earth policy and massacring civilians in the process | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent policy=Theme | ||||
| 2 | scorch | participle | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 3 | execute | past | NKVD units | political prisoners | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prisoner=Patient | ||||
| 4 | not evacuate | could · passive | political prisoners | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
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